Writing on her Tumblr blog, Sagun - who is based in San Francisco - says that she first began her yoga journey four years ago at university.

"It was years earlier that I had wanted to try out yoga, but things always came up," she said. "I remember the first class being surprised that doing simple poses was so difficult, but being excited to keep it up and get better at it.

"My yoga instructor was an older man named Lawrence Caughlin and he was very encouraging no matter what. Always being positive and telling us it took even him time to get a pose."

Sagun says that at one point, she hit a brick wall with her art studies and fell into depression. But yoga helped her.

"Doing yoga and traveling was the only thing to take my mind off of overthinking. Yoga has become a personal therapy that has helped me so much," she writes.

"Even though everyone sees me physically, its more of what yoga does for me mentally. I thank my practice for always being the supporting hand on my shoulder when things get tough."